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JK highest unemployed in entire India
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Figures mock at employment promises of Govt
42000 graduates, 11000 PGs registered with Govt,
jobless
Srinagar: The problem of unemployment
seems to be an unending crises in valley, with the figures revealing more than
6980 post graduates and 29034 graduates registered with government employment
exchanges in Kashmir valley are jobless.
Pertinently, the ruling National Conference and Congress
in their respective election manifestos of 2008 had pledged to eradicate the
problem of unemployment from the state with the creation of new job avenues for
the educated youth.
NC in its page eight of election manifesto had promised
to tackle the unemployment problem ‘expeditiously’. It had termed the same
‘alarming’. “It is shameful that scholars with PhD degrees, M.A, Medicine and
Engineering should be getting wasted away. We will explore avenues for their
adjustment,” reads NC’s manifesto of 2008.
According to the figures revealed by government’s various
district employment and counseling centres, valley has 6980 Post Graduates
unemployed while as in Jammu the number of registered unemployed Post Graduates
is 4094.
The reports inform KNS further that there are 1622
students searching for jobs who posses PG degrees in various science streams
including biotechnology, botany, physics etc. The figure reveals further that
valley has 3567 arts post graduates unemployed. The unemployed lot poses
degrees in English, Urdu, Political Science etc.
The figures reveal that in valley there are more than
29034 graduates who are unemployed and in Jammu province the number of jobless
graduates is 12426. The details inform that Kashmir division has 46703 people
jobless who have passed 10+2 in various streams while as in Jammu the number is
27212.
With Jammu and Kashmir reeling under the unemployment
crises, out the total number of two lack forty four thousand
jobless educated youth in the state, Kashmir division appears to be worst
affected having more than one lakh fifty five thousand of its educated youth
educated youth unemployed.
Also there are more than four thousand five hundred
registered degree holders of engineering jobless in the state and that the
number of unemployed diploma holders is more than eight thousand five hundred.
The reports remarked that there are five thousand five
hundred unemployed ITI trained youth jobless in the state.
The details reveal that Jammu and Kashmir has the highest
unemployment rate of 4.9% while as in Punjab it is 2.8%, in Himachal Pradesh it
is 2.0%, in Delhi it is 4.7 % while as in Haryana it is 3.2% The reports also
reveal that in JK, the unemployment rate of females is highest in India. In JK
it is 20.20% while as at all India level it is mere 3.7%.
Also in Urban areas of Jammu and Kashmir, the rate of
unemployment is 7.8% while as in rural areas it is 3.9%.
As per the census 2001, the literacy rate of the state
stood at 55.5%, which has increased further to 68.7 % as per present census
2011.The provisional population ( seven years and above) of the state as per
census 2011 is 125.48 lakh persons out of which 72.450 lakh persons are
literate. (KNS)
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